Not sure how this would affect your guys' server load, but I think a large portion of the FFA community would be interested in a no limit free for all or a larger number of countries. I am not suggesting that you change the current FFA, just open up a crazier version =]

Thoughts?

I think they should limit the current FFA server to 4 countries instead of 16 to get more people to play it

now thats an idea

I am in support of implementing both ideas. You can have your pansy FFA with 4 countries, and we can have crazy FFA with unlimited =]

=/ splitting servers i don't think would help much

just make it higher then :P

we've had multiple discussions on this before... on this forum i think even

http://forums.earthempires.com/...-the-ffa-limit-please-r-r

on FFAT apparently

basically some people say yes! some people say 32 some people say 100 some people say unlimited, other people say 16 is too many, and many say 16 is okay but if they had to play more to compete they wouldn't play =/

Yeah, there have been a couple more recent threads about it too. Figured I would bring it up again :-P

I am suggesting just adding it and not changing FFA.

I assume it would just be like 20 crazy people each running 500 countries killing each other or getting 15 bil NW...it would be interesting and not sure it would really detract from normal FFA.

We need to think of a way to distinguish it from normal FFA more


Maybe slow the game down to like turns every 30 mins? 45 mins? i wouldn't wanna think what would happen if you sped it up.....unlimited ffa express with 2 weeks sets? hehe

oh, and it should be truly Free for All, either no clans at all or all countries of the same user are automatically tagged to the same account.

I would try it again with, say, a 4 country limit. More than that is just too much.

There's nothing wrong with just running 4 countries out of 16.

Theres nothing wrong with only playing a quarter of the turns in any of the other servers either but its kinda pointless

That's totally incorrect.

I know of players who have put countries into the top ten and did it with far less than 16 countries.

I also don't see where the issue would be with warring. It would slightly harder to FA restarts? You might have to actually go to a kill chat instead of solo killing by yourself? I thought you were a better warrer than that, why are you acting like it's so insurmountable?

if people are getting to top 10 with less countries than 16, then obviously the rest of the FFA's community's netters are doing something wrong.

also, who the hell can run 500 countries? with a bot script? oh right..

i can live with 4 countries at express speed, but for a full reset ;)